Category: Security

This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. Today, we will look at an essential building block for running a secure website: HTTPS. We won’t go into the technical details of the protocol itself, but look at some security measures around HTTPS you should take to keep your […]

This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. In the good old times of web development, websites were pretty self-contained. You had an HTML page with a CSS stylesheet, some images, maybe a bit of Javascript, all served from the same server (e.g. example.com). Maybe your static files […]

This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. What the XSS? XSS stands for Cross-Site Scripting. Cross-Site Scripting is a code injection technique. Through carefully crafted input, an attacker injects code, usually JavaScript, into a website. This code is then run by the victim’s browser and can basically […]

A friend recently mentioned that he was caught by surprise when he was asked to explain CORS in a job interview. As a web developer, you come across so many acronyms on a daily basis that it can be challenging to keep up. However, not all acronyms are created equal. Here is a list of security related acronyms […]